ABSTRACT
This chapter examines an instance of religion’s globalization on the basis of fi eldwork1 I conducted among members of the Vietnamese Pentecostal Holy Spirit Church2 in Berlin and Hanoi. Founded in West Germany in the early 1980s, the Holy Spirit Church has acquired an increasingly transnational dimension since German reunifi cation. With the new possibilities offered by the post-Cold War era and the advent of affordable travel, the church has attracted many new adherents in Eastern Europe, Vietnam, and other countries of Southeast Asia. In the process, its missionaries and followers have forged new cross-border ties that join people separated by geography, culture, and politics.3
